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Unfortunately I invested these men with a wisdom which I was to discover years later they did not possess; I assumed they had attained heights which I discovered later they had not climbed; I imagined their minds preoccupied with the service of humanity which I discovered later seldom existed.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 5 : The Literary Work > # 151